Lars von Trier films, ranked by your taste
Director and actor · 11 films on Boxlist
Known for Melancholia, Breaking the Waves and Dogville.
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Side by Side
2012 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDBSince the invention of cinema, the standard format for recording moving images has been film. Over the past two decades, a new form of digital filmmaking has emerged, creating a groundbreaking evolution in the medium. Keanu Reeves explores...
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Europa
1991 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDBPostwar Germany, 1945. Leopold Kessler, an American of German descent, works as a sleeping car conductor for the Zentropa railway line. When he meets Katharina Hartmann, the railroad owner's daughter, and they fall in love, his life...
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The Idiots
1998 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDBWith his first Dogma-95 film director Lars von Trier opens up a completely new film platform. With a mix of home-video and documentary styles the film tells the story of a group of young people who have decided to get to know their...
The Kingdom II
2024 · Film
Set in the neurosurgical ward of Copenhagen's Rigshospitalet, the city and country's main hospital, nicknamed "Riget", "Riget" means "the realm" or "the kingdom" and leads one to think of "dødsriget", the realm of the dead.
Directed by Lars von Trier
Melancholia
2011 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDBTwo sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.
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Breaking the Waves
1996 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDBIn a small and conservative Scottish village, a woman's paralytic husband convinces her to have extramarital intercourse so she can tell him about it and give him a reason for living.
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Dogville
2003 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDBA barren soundstage is stylishly utilized to create a minimalist small-town setting in which a mysterious woman named Grace hides from the criminals who pursue her. The town is two-faced and offers to harbor Grace as long as she can make...
Europa
1991 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDBPostwar Germany, 1945. Leopold Kessler, an American of German descent, works as a sleeping car conductor for the Zentropa railway line. When he meets Katharina Hartmann, the railroad owner's daughter, and they fall in love, his life...
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Dancer in the Dark
2000 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDBSelma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will suffer the same fate without an expensive operation. When life gets too...
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The House That Jack Built
2018 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDBFailed architect, engineer and vicious murderer Jack narrates the details of some of his most elaborately orchestrated crimes, each of them a towering piece of art that defines his life's work as a serial killer for twelve years.
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Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
2013 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDBThe continuation of Joe's sexually dictated life delves into the darker aspects of her adult life and what led to her being in Seligman's care.
Where to watch:+ rent/buyThe Idiots
1998 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDBWith his first Dogma-95 film director Lars von Trier opens up a completely new film platform. With a mix of home-video and documentary styles the film tells the story of a group of young people who have decided to get to know their...
Antichrist
2009 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDBA grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.
Where to watch:The Kingdom II
2024 · Film
Set in the neurosurgical ward of Copenhagen's Rigshospitalet, the city and country's main hospital, nicknamed "Riget", "Riget" means "the realm" or "the kingdom" and leads one to think of "dødsriget", the realm of the dead.
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